Juan Hidalgopoética/política de la indeterminación

Resum

This research focuses on the historical and historiographical revision of the figure of Juan Hidalgo as part of the practice and history of contemporary Spanish art. The research has been done under the observation of three principal paradigms of his work: the aesthetic-ideological component, the political significance of all them and, especially, the biopolitical issues of the free expression of sexuality, to which Hidalgo has approaches from the very beginning of his work up to the day where the so-called gender or queer theory imported from the north-american academic practice and theory was first developed in the field of spanish art history in the eighties. From these three points of view, it has made a collection of the works and actions that Hidalgo has done in more than half a century. Influenced by John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Zen philosophy, the works of Satie or anarchism, the work of Hidalgo could be analyzed in relation with those paradigms that nowadays plays an important role in the reviews of art history made under new theoretical paradigms of gender and queer identities. However, as can be seen in the final part of our research, those paradigms have not been used very often as a way of recover local references. Questioning why this happens, we find the final analysis of critical practices of our country, and the silence surrounding works so relevant to the history of Spanish art like the ones made by Juan Hidalgo.